A Reminder: These short stories are from a writing program called Round Robin. Write something every day, set the timer for 12 minutes, the title of each piece is the daily prompt. Stop writing once the alarm goes off.
Archive for Florence
Darrell Vickers – How I Spent a Fortune to Give My Family The Worst Christmas Ever
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Darrell Vickers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Florence, Italy, Sick as a Dog, Vacation on March 12, 2018 by segarini
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I aspired to reach for the stars. To invoke the jealousy of those persnickety Gods we hear so much about. My uber-laudable mission was to procure a birthday gift for my wife of such incalculable magnificence that any trite concerns of time and tide would be completely obliterated by the light of its epic-tastic magnificence. Countless worthy avenues of unparalleled largesse were furiously explored and discounted. Stones of-an-unturned-nature were becoming rarer than award-winning documentaries on fish dentistry.
BINGO!
Darrell Vickers – My 72 Hour Italian Vacation
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags balcony, Birds, Darrell Vickers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Florence, Italian Vacation, Italy, Scooters, segarini, Smoking, Sweathogs, Topo Gigio, William Shatner, wine on January 29, 2018 by segarini
A Quick Note from the Author….
This giddily insouciant and hopefully risible treatise was penned as I was unknowingly perched on the very precipice of falling gravely ill and nearly being shipped home from Italy in a pine box (which is only slightly less comfortable than Economy). That will be the subject of my next bravely jocular but tear-inducing column. Stay tuned, but keep those hankies at the ready.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 